God may nuke us if DADT is repealed
According to the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer, his god may quit watching over our country and in fact may kill us if Congress does away with the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy in the nation’s armed forces.
“The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things so our families can sleep safely and securely at night,” writes Fischer in his AFA blog posting on Wednesday. “It must not be used as some giant laboratory for politically correct social engineering experiments.”“A military that is weakened spiritually is a military that is a weakened fighting force. The ancient Scriptures still have it right: ‘Unless the Lord watches over a city, the watchmen stand guard in vain’ (Psalm 127:1),” he wrote. “The Founders understood this; our current crop of Pentagon leaders do not, and seem intent on making what will prove to be a fatal mistake. There is no quicker way to assign the United States to the scrap heap of history than to normalize homosexual behavior in our military.”
Fischer failed to explain what he meant by “fatal mistake.” One can only assume that since his god is supposedly almighty, all powerful, and the commander-in-chief, that he or she may choose to kill all of us if the military’s discriminatory practice is abolished. To do that, his god will either have to flood the earth again, drop a few nukes at selected locations around the world, or find some some other atrocious means of destroying of human life. Nuking would be easier ... and faster.
“Repeal will have a harmful effect on recruitment and retention; in another survey, 24% of active duty personnel indicated that they either would resign or would consider resigning from the military if open homosexuals are allowed to serve,” he writes.
Are members of our military so insecure with their own sexuality that they would feel threatened by the mereknowledge of a fellow member being gay or lesbian? After all, it’s not like repealing the policy will give gays and lesbians the right to “hit on” or “recruit” fellow service members into some sort of imaginary “queer” brotherhood or sisterhood. In our military is not where such an insecure individual should be employed ... welding weapons and holding other human lives in their hands.
“I have spent the last year or so listening to Bryan Fischer's daily radio program and reading his regular blog posts on the American Family Association website,” writes a blogger who identifies himself as Kyle on the Right Wing Watch website. “Sometimes I wonder if he isn't really a left-wing performance artist masquerading as an ultra-conservative right-wing zealot in order to make the movement look foolish or else is just someone who concocts ever more ridiculous pieces in an effort to generate attention for himself.”
If either of those theories is true, Fischer is successful. If not, like millions of other religious ultra-conservatives, his beliefs have inhibited his ability to rationalize the situation. “Out” members of the military pose no more of a threat to other members of the military than do “out” employees in any other business. Not to mention, they have the right to be “out,” thanks to those founders that Fischer erroneously believes intended for this type of speech to be inhibited.
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